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<\/a>Long time, no blog. It feels as though we’ve been very busy recently, particularly at weekends, and as a result I’ve not had a lot of time to post here. Anyway, enough of the metablogging and onto the garden update.<\/p>\n

A couple of weekends ago we had a very busy Saturday. Our fourth skip<\/a> in about as many months arrived early in the morning and after seeing it safely onto our drive I headed down to Berkhamsted Tool Hire to pick up a kango. The mission of the day was to break up our grim old concrete garden path in order to make way for something new. The work was fun – very satisfying – and didn’t take too long. Katie documented our efforts on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I love being out in the garden at the weekend. I think it’s so far removed from my day job of sitting in front of a computer screen and so physical that it completely clears my head. The fresh air does me the world of good. My gardening skills so far have shown that I’m fantastic<\/em> at destroying stuff…hopefully I’ll be able to do some good planting and pruning as spring rolls around! We’ll see.<\/div>\n

Long time, no blog. It feels as though we’ve been very busy recently, particularly at weekends, and as a result I’ve not had a lot of time to post here. Anyway, enough of the metablogging and onto the garden update. A couple of weekends ago we had a very busy Saturday. 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